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 2594 PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. .R¤"°°°**°¤ i' ¤¤d¤° Provided however that this proclamation shall not take _ effect igsi°°$u.ii°inu°ri°¤nlZio°¤ii2 from and after March 31,_ 1910, but shall be null and vo1d in the "“'°‘* event that, at any time (prior to the aforesaid date, satisfactory evidence shall be resente to the President that the Government of His Britannic Ldiajesty has made such change or changes in its present laws or regulations affecting American commerce in Trinidad and Tobago as to discriminate unduly in any way against such commerce, and in the further event that a proclamation by the President of such ` fact, revokiplgathe resent proclamation, shall have been issued. IN WIT SS %VHER OF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United_States to_be aflixed. DONE at the City of Washington, this eighth da(y of March, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and ten, an of the Independ- [sun.] ence of the United States of America the one hundred and thirty-fourth. Wu H Tnrr By the President: P C KNox ` Secretary of State. Ymh 8, Nm- Br THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. f A PROCLAMATION. ’l‘arl1!0nC¤banpr¤d· WHEREAS it is Xrovided in the Act of Congress aplproved August "°{»‘;s.,msi., 5, 1909, entitled " n _Act To provide revenue, eqna ze duties and M"- P- 82- encourage the mdustnes of the United States, and for other purposes L That from and after the thirgydirst day of March, nineteen hundred and ten, except as otherwise specially provide for in this section, there shall be levied, collected, and paid on all articles when imported from any foreign country into the United States, or into any of its possessions (except the Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), the rates of duty prescribedalzy the schedules and paragraphs of the dutiable list of section one of this Act, and in dition thereto twenty-five per centum ad valorem; which rates shall constitute the maximum tariff of the United States: Provided, That whenever, after the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and ten, and so long thereafter as the President shall be satisfied, in view of the character of the concessionsgianted by the minimum tariff of the United States, that the government of any foreign country imposes no terms or restrictions, either in the way of tariff rates or provisions, trade or other regulations, charges, exactions, or in any other manner, irectly or indirectly, upon the importation into or the sale in such foreign country of any agricultural, manufactured, or other product of the United States, which unduly discriminate against the United States or the products thereof, and that such forei n country pays no export bounty or im s no export duty or prohibition upon the exportation of any article to the Unitedpxtes which unduly discriminates against the United States or the products thereof, and that such foreign country accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and equivalent, thereupon and thereafter, upon proclamation to this effect by the President of the United States, all articles when imported into the United States or any of its possessions (_except the Phili pine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutnila), from such foreign countryshall: eircept as otherwise herein provided, be adnntted under the terms of the minimum tariff of the United States as prescribed by section one of this Act. AND WHEREAS satisfactory evidence has been presented to me that the Government of Cuba imposes no terms or restrictions, either in the way of tariff rates or provisions, trade or other regulations, charges, exactions, or_ m any other manner, directly or indirectly, upon the importation into or the sale in_Cuba of any agricultural, manufactured,or otherproduct of the United States,whic unduly discriminate against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Goveminent of Cuba pays no export bounty or imposes no ellnport duty or prohibition upon the exportation of any artic e to the mted States